 | John Almon - English literature - 1786 - 328 pages
...crowning good, repreffing ill ; Smit by her facred frown, The fiend Diferetioa like a vapour finks, And e'en the all-dazzling Crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding fbrinks. Such was this heav'n-lov'd ifle, Than Lefbos fairer and the Cretan fhore ! No more fliall... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1794 - 574 pages
...while- they rend the chain : These constitute a State ; And sov'reign LAW, that state's cotttSed'will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits Empress, crowning...Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend Discretion like a vapour sinks, And e'en the all-dazzling Crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Such... | |
 | Apollo - 1800 - 224 pages
...crowning good, repreffing ill ; Smit by her facred frown, The fiend OPPRESSION, like a vapour finks, And e'en the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding fbrinks. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD. . rrH E curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The... | |
 | Literature - 1806 - 422 pages
...state's collected -will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits Empress, crowning good, repressing ill 5 Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend, discretion, like...Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Such was this heavenloved isle, Than Lesbos fairer and the Cretan shore ! No more shall freedom smile... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 502 pages
...while they rend the chain : These constitute a State, And sovereign Law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits Empress crowning...Smit by her sacred frown The fiend Discretion like a vapour sinks, And e'en the all dazzling Crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Such... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1808 - 142 pages
...rot Bath. Cooke: Oxford. L These constitute a state : And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning...by her sacred frown The fiend, Discretion, like a vapour sinks, And e'en the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks ; Such... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1808 - 526 pages
...Empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Sim't by her sacred frown, The fiend oppression, like a tapour sinks. And e'en- the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks, — Such was this heaven-lov'd isle, Than Lesbos fairer and the Cretan shore I No more shall freedom... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...while they rend the chain : These constitute a state, And sov'reign LA.W, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits Empress, crowning...by her sacred frown The fiend, Discretion, like a vapour sinks, And e'en th' all-dazzling Crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Such... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...while they rend the chain : These constitute a state ; And Sovereign Law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning...by her sacred frown, The fiend Discretion * like a vapour sinks, And e'en the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Such... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...while they rend the chain : These constitute a State, And sov'reign Law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits Empress, crowning...Smit by her sacred frown The fiend Discretion like a vapour sinks, And e'en th' all-dazzling Crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Such... | |
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Prevent the long-aimed blow. And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a state ; And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill : Smit by her sacred frown,... 
